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Vocabulary
100

This is the person whom the narrator of the Raven lost before the poem began.

What is Lenore?

100

During what event did The Cask of Amontillado occur?

What is the Carnival?

100

This is what Frida Kahlo suffered from during her childhood.

What is Polio?

100
This is what RACER stands for.

What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, and Retell?

100

This is a comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

200

This is how old Ji-li was at the beginning of her memoir.

A. 10

B. 12

C. 13

D. 14

What is B?

200

In what month did the Raven take place?

What is December?

200
This is what the Younger family received which allowed them to get a house.

What is a check for $10,000?

200

These are the 4 things you must have to write a complete sentence.

What is a capital first letter, a period, a subject, and a predicate?

200

This is when a writer describes something so well you can picture it in your mind.

What is imagery?

300

This was the doctor who kept track of Phineas Gage after he left Boston.

A. Dr. Harlow

B. Dr. Blackington

C. Dr. Broca

D. Dr. Williams

What is A?

300
What city in China did Jili live in?

What is Shanghai?

300

This is how the narrator kills the old man in The Tell-Tale Heart.

He suffocates him.

300

This is a thesis statement.

What is the main argument you are trying to prove in your essay.

300

This is when the writer hints at something which will happen in the future.

What is foreshadowing?

400

This was the artist that Diego Rivera studied with.

Who is Picasso?

400

Phineas Gage most likely worked in this country as a stagecoach driver.

What is Chile?

400

This is how Phineas Gage's accident occured. Be specific.

Which is the tamping iron fell into an hole filled with gunpowder which caused it to explore?

400

This is the font you should use when writing for Language Arts class.

What is 12pt Times New Roman?

400
This is when the writer repeats a word or a phrase for a specific reason.

What is repetition? 

500

This character from A Raisin in the Sun was studying to become a doctor.

Who is Beneatha?

500

This is where the Younger Family plan to move. The more specific you are the more points you will earn

What is 406 Clyborne Street, Clyborne Park

500
One of these were written about Ji-li at school. 

What is a Da-Zi-Bao?

500

This is how you would properly cite this quote in an essay.

"Yes, he was stone, stone dead."

The narrator said, "yes, he was stone, stone dead."

500
This is when a word represents something beyond itself.

What is symbolism?

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